A lawyer accused of defrauding a bank and stealing from clients has turned himself in.

Ellwood City police said Michael Frisk, 34 was arraigned Monday morning and has a preliminary hearing scheduled for next week.

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Authorities said Frisk may have stolen money from at least 10 people. He was wanted in connection with 28 counts of forgery, conspiracy and receiving stolen property. Melody Valentino told Channel 4 Action News investigative reporter Jim Parsons that she is "completely stunned" and "devastated."

An electrical fire gutted Valentino's house in North Sewickley, Beaver County, and killed her 19-year-old son. Now, she has found out that a $74,000 settlement from her insurance company to help replace the home is gone.

"Everything is gone," she said.

Valentino said an investigator with the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania told her that Frisk drained her funds from an escrow bank account.

"I have no mercy for you," Valentino said to Frisk, wherever he may be. "I hope you get put in jail and serve your time, and I hope that you lose your license."

Ellwood City police said another Frisk client has come forward with a claim that he stole more than $10,000 from her.

About the recent Frisk developments, Ellwood City Police Lt. Dave Kingston said, "I'm not surprised." He said Frisk was arrested last year in a domestic dispute.

"He had been in a downward spiral for a year or two," Kingston said. "Actually, we had talked with some people to try to get him some help, but it just wasn't working out the way we would have liked it to work out."

John Pounds said a car crash left him paralyzed in 1996, and he received a settlement in court, but was approached years later by Frisk, who he knew.

"He told me he had financial trouble, and I took his word that he would pay me back," Pounds said.

The pair signed a contract on loose-leaf, yellow-lined paper for a loan of $5,000 in May. Days later, Pounds claimed, Frisk asked for even more money.

"I figured, well, being a lawyer, he went out and he's just starting. He got in deeper than he could afford, Pounds said.

Paperwork was completed again, and in the end, Pounds said he paid up three times to a sum of more than $10,000.

Meanwhile, there was another car crash and settlement and another alleged victim, Joseph Miller.

Once I got my money and everything, he had come into some medical bills. His wife was having a kid, and there were complications, and he called me to borrow the money," Miller said of Frisk.

Miller said he ended up loaning $3,500 to Frisk. Miller and Pounds said they haven't received any money back, and they said the district attorney's office is investigating similar claims from nine other people.

Frisk has also been accused of defrauding a Huntingdon Bank in Ellwood City by forging several checks, authorities said.